Part 3: Climate Change and the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island
The climate severe climate change known as the Little Ice Age (1600-1900) may be connected with severe drought in the American Southeast in the Carolinas and Virginia near that time.
The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County in present-day North Carolina was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century to establish a permanent English settlement in the Virginia Colony. Between 1585 and 1587, several groups attempted to establish a colony, but either abandoned the settlement or disappeared. The final group of colonists disappeared after three years elapsed without supplies from the Kingdom of England during the Anglo-Spanish War, leading to the continuing mystery known as "The Lost Colony". One possible explanation is that they were assimilated into the local indigenous tribes. (Wiki)
The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts by Stahle, David W., Cleaveland, Malcolm K., Blanton, Dennis B., Therrell, Matthew D., and Gay, David A.
A drought reconstruction, stretching back to 1185, indicates that the most severe growing season drought and the most severe three year period of drought in 800 years coincided with the disappearance of the Roanoke Island Colonists.
In addition, a reconstruction of the severe seven year drought (1606-1612) in Jamestown, accounted from documented historical records, likely played a part in the high death rate in the colony. Only 38 of the original 104 colonists survived the first year (1607) at Jamestown and of the 6000 people that came to the settlement between the years of 1608-1624, only 3400 survived. Most reportedly died of malnutrition.
Ref. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought/drght_james.html
Posted September 6, 2009 by Lewis Loflin
- See the following:
- Whale Fossils Unlock the History of the North
- Part 1: Climate Change and the Fall of the Late Roman Empire
- Part 2:Climate Change and the End of the Vikings in Greenland
- Part 3: Climate Change and the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island
- The Cooling World Hysteria of 1976
Note: in 2008 that claim of one degree since 1960 has been retracted by government experts. It also turned out that six of the ten warmest periods in the 20th Century was in the 1930s. Now they claim we are entering a seven year cooling trend because of global warming. They also claimed after Katrina we were going to get slammed with record killer hurricanes because of global warming. Instead, we have had record low numbers of hurricanes since then. (They also blamed that on global warming.) That cooling trend was not in the computer models either. The simple fact is that the Northwest passage has been open several times in the past, including within recorded history. So unless the ancient Egyptians and Celts were driving SUVs 3000 years ago, we have to assume a natural event.
In fact according to the NASA Earth Observatory, "Without the Sun, the Earth would be no more than a frozen rock stranded in space. The Sun warms the Earth and makes life possible. Its energy generates clouds, cleanses our water, produces plants, keeps animals and humans warm, and drives ocean currents and thunderstorms. Despite the Sun's importance, scientists have only begun to study it with high precision in recent decades. Prior to 1979, in fact, astronomers and Earth scientists did not even have accurate data on the total amount of energy from the Sun that reaches the Earth's outermost atmosphere..."
See http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/SORCE/sorce.php
Without even knowing solar radiation prior to 1979 just how could they make any correlation to anything prior to that? The sun is what drives the earth's climate. Yet even today NASA still says, "Due to technological barriers and a limited amount of data, however, scientist's understanding of the Sun-Earth system continues to be incomplete."
Science Daily (Mar. 21, 2003) Notes, "Since the late 1970s, the amount of solar radiation the sun emits, during times of quiet sunspot activity, has increased by nearly .05 percent per decade, according to a NASA funded study." They go into a big denial this has nothing to do with global warming that has occurred since 1850. If this has in effect remained steady, how many decades have gone by since 1850? From 1850 to 2000 is 15 times .05 = .75%.
To further quote the article, "This trend is important because, if sustained over many decades, it could cause significant climate change," said Richard Willson, a researcher affiliated with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University's Earth Institute, New York. He is the lead author of the study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters. Historical records of solar activity indicate that solar radiation has been increasing since the late 19th century..."
See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030321075236.htm and argue with NASA.
So let's add up some facts: Solar radiation measurements prior to 1979 had no real precision. Historical records show warming began in the 19th century and NASA measurements show increased solar radiation, which will certainly cause an increase in temperatures. That's what the science says according to NASA.
One further note is when solar radiation increases and warms the oceans out-gassing of carbon dioxide will occur.
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